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the week in the record

The week of October 12, 2026

Thirteen meetings, thirty-three hours and four minutes of tape, in Boston and Brookline.

The meetings

each opens its tape and its page
Boston · City Council CommitteeEducation on October 13, 2026Three hours and fifteen minutes of the City Council Committee, and community was the frameOctober 13, 2026 · 3 h 15 minBrookline · School CommitteeBrookline School Committee Meeting - October 14, 2026 (Audio Fixed)Two hours and fifty-six minutes of the School Committee, and money was the frameOctober 14, 2026 · 2 h 56 minBoston · City Council CommitteeCivil Rights, Racial Equity, and Immigrant Advancement on October 14, 2026Two hours and forty-eight minutes of the City Council Committee, and community was the frameOctober 14, 2026 · 2 h 48 minBrookline · School CommitteeBrookline School Committee Meeting - October 14, 2026Three hours and eleven minutes of the School Committee, and money was the frameOctober 14, 2026 · 3 h 11 minBrookline · School CommitteeBrookline Select Board Meeting - October 20, 2026Six hours and sixteen minutes of the School Committee, and procedure was the frameOctober 14, 2026 · 6 h 16 minBoston · School CommitteeBoston School Committee Meeting 10-14-2026Three hours and thirty-nine minutes of the School Committee, and money was the frameOctober 14, 2026 · 3 h 39 minBoston · Licensing BoardBoston Licensing Board Transactional Hearing 10-14-26One hour and fifty-four minutes of the Licensing Board, and community was the frameOctober 14, 2026 · 1 h 54 minBoston · City Council CommitteeLabor, Workforce & Economic Development on October 15, 2026Fifty-nine minutes of the City Council Committee, and community was the frameOctober 15, 2026 · 59 minBoston · Licensing BoardBoston Licensing Board Voting Hearing 10-15-26Twenty-eight minutes of the Licensing Board, and infrastructure was the frameOctober 15, 2026 · 28 minBoston · BPDABPDA Board of Directors Meeting 10-15-26Three hours and thirty-one minutes of the BPDA, and infrastructure was the frameOctober 15, 2026 · 3 h 31 minBoston · City Council CommitteeGovernment Operations on October 15, 2026One hour and forty-four minutes of the City Council Committee, and infrastructure was the frameOctober 15, 2026 · 1 h 44 minBoston · City Council CommitteePlanning, Development and Transportation on October 16, 2026One hour and thirty-six minutes of the City Council Committee, and community was the frameOctober 16, 2026 · 1 h 36 minBoston · Licensing BoardBoston Licensing Board Violations Hearing 10 -13-26Thirty-nine minutes of the Licensing Board, and safety was the frameOctober 16, 2026 · 39 min

What was decided

the roll calls read from the tapes, and the loudest decisions and pushback

and 206 moments more, on the meetings’ own pages

The sums named

the dollar figures each room said most, the most said first

and 33 sums more, on the meetings’ own pages

The threads that moved

the issues the record follows, the most moments this week first
and 69 threads more

and 69 threads more, every one on this week’s page: publicrecord.studio/app/week/2026-10-12/

How the week talked

the eight lenses, this week against the whole record
the lenses, explained →

Of 5,051 words this week’s tapes file under a lens, 27% were about community — 23% across the whole record. It leaned furthest from the record’s habit toward infrastructure: 18% of the week’s words, against 11%.

counted by the press from the record’s own planes — the meetings’ roll calls, moments, sums and lenses, and the threads’ timelines; no model counted any of it; a thread a model named says so; every line opens the tape

Every week on the record